linux/init
Iago López Galeiras 2e13ba54a2 fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
Commit 818411616b ("fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children
entry") introduced the children entry for checkpoint restore and the
file is only available on kernels configured with CONFIG_EXPERT and
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

This is available in most distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS)
because they usually enable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
But Arch does not enable CONFIG_EXPERT or CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

However, the children proc file is useful outside of checkpoint restore.
I would like to use it in rkt.  The rkt process exec() another program
it does not control, and that other program will fork()+exec() a child
process.  I would like to find the pid of the child process from an
external tool without iterating in /proc over all processes to find
which one has a parent pid equal to rkt.

This commit introduces CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN and makes
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE select it.  This allows enabling
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children without needing to enable
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and CONFIG_EXPERT.

Alban tested that /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children is present when the
kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN=y but without
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Tested-by: Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Djalal Harouni <djalal@endocode.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-25 17:00:37 -07:00
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calibrate.c kernel: add calibration_delay_done() 2014-06-16 12:47:39 -06:00
do_mounts_initrd.c usermodehelper: split remaining calls to call_usermodehelper_fns() 2013-04-30 17:04:06 -07:00
do_mounts_md.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c initramfs: support initramfs that is bigger than 2GiB 2014-08-08 15:57:26 -07:00
do_mounts.c init: fix regression by supporting devices with major:minor:offset format 2015-05-05 12:31:37 -04:00
do_mounts.h
init_task.c sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file 2013-02-07 20:51:08 +01:00
initramfs.c init/initramfs.c: resolve shadow warnings 2014-10-14 02:18:22 +02:00
Kconfig fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN 2015-06-25 17:00:37 -07:00
main.c ACPI / init: Switch over platform to the ACPI mode later 2015-06-10 23:51:27 +02:00
Makefile init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK 2012-05-05 13:00:46 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common 2014-12-04 14:34:47 -05:00